I am not ready to move to a third world country to compete.
Paying someone from India one third of my pay would give them a very good standard of living in India.
Maybe we should pay the CEO's their equivalent wages of a small business owner in a third world country?
Better yet, lets go to New Delhi and choose the first ~535 (or so) people off of the street and replace Congress with them. I am sure they will work harder and cheaper!
No really. What is wrong with making a good wage for a good job in your own country? The money my boss pays me gets spent in this country (mostly - I dont drive imports). When I spend money in my own country, it iunvigorates the LOCAL economy, which in turn, give LOCAL people mnore income and eventually spurs demand for more products so my company's CEO can make more money.
This offshoring is the filthy rich big business executive's way of quickly lining their pockets with money so they can cash out quick and retire. They don't give a damn about the long term.
I am done ranting now...
I live the greatest adventure anyone could want. - Tosk the Hunted
If you give me physical access to a PC, I CAN get ALL of the data off of it.
The only way to be safe is to remove ALL avenues of data removal.
1. Remove all USB ports
2. Remove all floppy drives
3. Remove all CDRoms
4. Lock down the bios
5. Physically lock the case shut!!!
6. Don't connect your network to the outside world
7. Keep a phyusical distance between secure and non secure networks.
8. Keep the secure network and all of its machines in a electromagnetically shielded room.
Can you think of any others?
I live the greatest adventure anyone could want. - Tosk the Hunted.
Here are my question/answers:
1. Is the world safer now than it was 4 years ago? NO
2. Is the US safer now than it was 4 years ago? NO
3. Is the world economy better now than it was 4 years ago? NO
4. Am I happy as I was with the US, world and my life than I was 4 years ago? NO.
I didn't vote for the guy. I voted for the guy that got the most votes and lost.
I live the greatest adventure anyone could wish for. - Tosk the Hunted
We like to make web-based applications for several reasons.
1. No license fees to worry about ont he server or my clients.
2. I can control the web/database server. (I can't and don't need to control your computer.)
3. If I make my application compliant with Netscape 3.0, it WILL WORK on ALL BROWSERS.
4. I can easily design to minimize trips to the server, maximize data throughput, AND take care of concurrency issues.
5. My application will work on ALL browsers for ALL operating systems (OKAY not the Lynx browser).
6. No license fees to worry about ont he server or my clients.
The list goes on...
You said "No license fees twice!" I LIKE no license fees.
I live the greatest adventure anyone could wish for. - Tosk the Hunted
What I really want the RIAA to realize, is that I PAID them already!
I have purchased every bit of music I like listening to.
Much of the music is on old tapes or records. Many of the tapes (and a few records) have degraded since my original purchase.
Here is my plan: put ALL of my old, worn out media in a big box, catalog it and mail it to thr RIAA. Here's the dream part -- the RIAA allows me to legally download ALL of the music that I have already paid for and I get to legally make NEW copies of my OLD media. Heck, let me get it from a P2P sharing service, I don't want to cost the RIAA an extra dime.
Does anyone else have a ton of old media they would want on CD, but dont want to BUY IT AGAIN?
I live the greatest adventure anyone could wish for. - Tosk the Hunted
We had the problem of concurrent users locking up a tape drive.
We tried a white board, we tried a sign in/out sheet, it got so bad that we held a meeting and the manager decided we would use the ownership of a certain file to show who was allowed to control the tape drive. The same manager broke his own rule immediately after the meeting. My solution was the one that worked. We used a really cheesy Mardi Gras necklace. Who ever had the necklace in their possession was allowed to access the tape drive. We never had a problem after that. If you left the necklace on your desk it was perfectly okay for someone else to steal it. If you wore the cheesy thing around your neck, everyone knew you were using the tape drive.
Sometime low tech is easier, more reliable and best of all, funnier.
I live the greatest adventure anyone could wish for. - Tosk the Hunted
Puerto Rico is a US commonwealth. People born in Puerto Rico are American Citizens. So why, oh why, is Puerto Rico representing itself as a separate country in the Olympics? We Americans are confused and stoopid enough already. Did they get independence when I wasn't looking?
I live the greatest adventure anyone could wish for. - Tosk the Hunted
"As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously."
I've been slightly schizophrenic all of my life. If you sister has a mild case like mine, it is easily controlled by your own thoughts. SELF MEDICATION IS NOT THE ANSWER!!! Taking drugs to feel better will DEFINITELY bring out schizophrenic episodes that you might not recover from. (Like a bad acid trip, but FOREVER!)
People who can control their schizophrenia without drugs can have useful "disassociative" thought processes. This type of unchecked thinking can lead to inspiration and the "A-HAH" moments that programmers value so much. (See previous slashdots for those "Eureka" moments.
All in all, I would rather be slightly schizophrenic than "normal", but I would never want to be an uncontrollable schizophrenic.
I live the greatest adventure anyone could want. -- Tock the Hunted
Hafnium is like phoshorus. It spontaneously combusts on contact with air. Adding gamma or xrays isn't going to activate the nucleus of the Hafnium atom somehow.
Elements that offer nuclear energy are either at the low end or high end of the periodic table. Low-end atomic weight element hydrogen and helium (1 and 4) can be made to fuse (fusion) to create middlish weight elements and energy (look at the sun). High-end atomic weight elements like uranium and plutonium (235 and 238) can be made ti split (fission) and create middlish weight atoms.
So there is NO WAY you will get a energy-yielding atomic reaction with hafnium and gamma/xrays.
Hafnium is used in many reactor control rods and are constantly exposed to a barrage of neutrons, gamma rays, fission fragment particles, etc. If this reasearch were true, nearly every nuclear reactor on the planet would be blowing up right now.
Hafnium might be used in weapons, but it is no more dangerous than phosphorus.
I live the greatest adventure anyone could want. - Tosk the Hunted
Have you ever had a problem with Microsoft products?
Have you ever gotten satisfaction from Microsoft?
How about that Word document that has lots of section breaks, headers and footers, excel and PowerPoint embedded objects, and is about 100 pages long? That darn thing always locks up Word. The solution from Microsoft is to break up the document into smaller documents.
I could have told you that solution without waiting on the help line forever!
Tons of things do not work correctly in Microsoft Office. More things are very counter-intuitive. Excel's number-formatted-as-text is a great one.
Retraining? I don't see it.
Most users can barely use Word as it is. They click here, then click there, type a little, get confused and come to me for help. They never bother to click on 'Help' and figure out their problem themselves.
Open Office menus are similar, common shortcut keys are almost identical and the interface is so similar, many users do not know the difference. I can take any one of our employees and sit them down behind Open Office and have them producing Word documents immediately.
There is no training cost, because they were never trained on Word either!
I live the greatest adventure anyone could want. -Tosk the Hunted
A good cooling setup would have enough flow to keep the liquid from boiling.
With a high enough recirculation flow rate, any boiling the would take place would be at the chip. Small bubbles would form and be swept away by the fluid flow.
This process is called "Nucleate Boiling" and is the best heat transfer method there is. The latent heat of vaporization is absorbed by the liquid in it's phase change to a gas. Then the tiny gas bubbles are swept away by the fluid flow and the gas bubbles collapse, giving their latent heat to the surrounding fluid. This heat is later removed by the cooling radiator at the other end.
As long as the bulk temperature of the fluid stays well below the boiling point and the fluid flow is sufficent to strip the small bubbles that form on the heat source surface, this is really the best setup imaginable!
I live the greatest adventure anyone could want -- Tosk the Hunted.
In the shower, on the toilet, walking up the stairs, driving to work, almost anyplace but at my keyboard.
This is where I solve the really tough problems.
The simple stuff is what I do every day. The tougher problems like the large scale designs and unique solutions for unique problems rarely get solved while I am at work.
I think about the big problems for hours or days and the solution finally comes to me.
The only downside of solving problems in the shower, is that I am doing it on my time and the boss doesn't pay me for that. That is why I NEVER feel guilty about slahdotting at work.
I live the greatest adventure anyone could wish for. -Tosk the Hunted
I used to teach in the School of Business at Florida State University, my wife taught in Education at FSU.
The School of Education had their lab computers locked down so hard, you had to login as a certain user to use the scanner, then logoff and login as a different user to use Photoshop. This is the way it was for almost every application. The lab assistant had to do the login for you. Many things were broken as in the above posting. This was all to keep the lab assistant from having to fix so many "broken" lab computers.
The School of Business on the other hand, had a generic image of the lab computers and very little security. When a lab computer got fouled up, they simply boot from a floppy and start the copy down of the network image and walk away. Takes them about 3 minutes of their time to redo a computer.
besides, spamming is pretty sophisticated these days, if the mail delivery fails, the target e-mail is often removed from the list of e-mail addresses they are trying to send scam e-mails to ( as far as I know )
I have several Email addresses I turned off years ago. If I recreate them, I will get several spam messages within 15 minutes, then I turn them off again.
Those spammers are either stupid or persistent (or both) checking an Email that has been dead for years.
I often get non-standardized spreadsheets and tables of data with this exact same problem. King-sized can be expressed many different ways.
I always take the bull by the horns and normalize the data myself (UPDATE T_PROD SET SIZE='KING' WHERE (SIZE='K' OR SIZE='74x80' OR SIZE='KNG')).
My simple rule is "never make the data worse". If you substitution fixes 100 bad entries and creates only 1 questionable result, it is a good substitution.
Remember, when faced with non-standardized data, the data ALWAYS has lots of errors in it. When you are through normalizing the data it WILL be better than when you started. The client can then go clean up the rest (they will have to even if you don't normalize).
These programs that have a price indicate that Guillermito must have purchased them to find the vulnerabilities. Purchasing gives him the right to force the companies to fix their product because he is a paying client of a company that makes fraudulent claims.
This argument may or may not work for the free/shareware products he tested.
But that's just because management hasn't started using them yet. When our new firewall started blocking sites, every site with the word 'mail' in it and every site not using the standard port 80 was blocked. I just shrugged and went on with life at work.
Recently, just for the heck of it, I tried my university mail account (port 8000) and it worked! Then I tried my personal webmail site and it worked too!
It looks like some higher exec type got locked out of his favorite site and made the networks guys open the firewall a little wider.
Maybe your 'no cell phones' rule is just another flavor of the week and it will go away also.
This is nothing new.
That thin strip in each bill actually has a few atoms of an Iridium isotope in it. Not enough to hurt you, barely enough to detect. But, put a bunch of bills in a duffel bag for instance, and the NSA can track you from space.
This conspiracy theory is as old as those little strips in the bills. I don't know if it's true, but I never have had a duffel bag of currency either!
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I am not ready to move to a third world country to compete.
Paying someone from India one third of my pay would give them a very good standard of living in India.
Maybe we should pay the CEO's their equivalent wages of a small business owner in a third world country?
Better yet, lets go to New Delhi and choose the first ~535 (or so) people off of the street and replace Congress with them. I am sure they will work harder and cheaper!
No really. What is wrong with making a good wage for a good job in your own country? The money my boss pays me gets spent in this country (mostly - I dont drive imports). When I spend money in my own country, it iunvigorates the LOCAL economy, which in turn, give LOCAL people mnore income and eventually spurs demand for more products so my company's CEO can make more money.
This offshoring is the filthy rich big business executive's way of quickly lining their pockets with money so they can cash out quick and retire.
They don't give a damn about the long term.
I am done ranting now...
I live the greatest adventure anyone could want. - Tosk the Hunted
If you give me physical access to a PC, I CAN get ALL of the data off of it.
The only way to be safe is to remove ALL avenues of data removal.
1. Remove all USB ports
2. Remove all floppy drives
3. Remove all CDRoms
4. Lock down the bios
5. Physically lock the case shut!!!
6. Don't connect your network to the outside world
7. Keep a phyusical distance between secure and non secure networks.
8. Keep the secure network and all of its machines in a electromagnetically shielded room.
Can you think of any others?
I live the greatest adventure anyone could want. - Tosk the Hunted.
Sixty-four cubic inches should be enough for ANY satellite!
I live the greatest adventure anyone could wish for. - Tosk the Hunted
Here are my question/answers:
1. Is the world safer now than it was 4 years ago? NO
2. Is the US safer now than it was 4 years ago? NO
3. Is the world economy better now than it was 4 years ago? NO
4. Am I happy as I was with the US, world and my life than I was 4 years ago? NO.
I didn't vote for the guy. I voted for the guy that got the most votes and lost.
I live the greatest adventure anyone could wish for. - Tosk the Hunted
Your coffee?
A good friend from the Navy used to say,
"I like my coffee like I like my women.
Black and bitter."
That may have been due to influences from his ex-wife.
I live the greatest adventure anyone could wish for. -- Tosk the Hunted.
DUH.
We like to make web-based applications for several reasons.
1. No license fees to worry about ont he server or my clients.
2. I can control the web/database server. (I can't and don't need to control your computer.)
3. If I make my application compliant with Netscape 3.0, it WILL WORK on ALL BROWSERS.
4. I can easily design to minimize trips to the server, maximize data throughput, AND take care of concurrency issues.
5. My application will work on ALL browsers for ALL operating systems (OKAY not the Lynx browser).
6. No license fees to worry about ont he server or my clients.
The list goes on...
You said "No license fees twice!"
I LIKE no license fees.
I live the greatest adventure anyone could wish for. - Tosk the Hunted
What I really want the RIAA to realize, is that I PAID them already!
I have purchased every bit of music I like listening to.
Much of the music is on old tapes or records.
Many of the tapes (and a few records) have degraded since my original purchase.
Here is my plan: put ALL of my old, worn out media in a big box, catalog it and mail it to thr RIAA.
Here's the dream part -- the RIAA allows me to legally download ALL of the music that I have already paid for and I get to legally make NEW copies of my OLD media.
Heck, let me get it from a P2P sharing service, I don't want to cost the RIAA an extra dime.
Does anyone else have a ton of old media they would want on CD, but dont want to BUY IT AGAIN?
I live the greatest adventure anyone could wish for. - Tosk the Hunted
We had the problem of concurrent users locking up a tape drive.
We tried a white board, we tried a sign in/out sheet, it got so bad that we held a meeting and the manager decided we would use the ownership of a certain file to show who was allowed to control the tape drive.
The same manager broke his own rule immediately after the meeting.
My solution was the one that worked.
We used a really cheesy Mardi Gras necklace. Who ever had the necklace in their possession was allowed to access the tape drive. We never had a problem after that.
If you left the necklace on your desk it was perfectly okay for someone else to steal it. If you wore the cheesy thing around your neck, everyone knew you were using the tape drive.
Sometime low tech is easier, more reliable and best of all, funnier.
I live the greatest adventure anyone could wish for. - Tosk the Hunted
Puerto Rico is a US commonwealth.
People born in Puerto Rico are American Citizens.
So why, oh why, is Puerto Rico representing itself as a separate country in the Olympics?
We Americans are confused and stoopid enough already.
Did they get independence when I wasn't looking?
I live the greatest adventure anyone could wish for. - Tosk the Hunted
"As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously."
-Ben Franklin
I am waiting for the artifical lung that uses my computer fan.
No more pumping my chest muscle just to get air in and out.
I can't wait...
Breathing with your own lungs is for suckers, anyway!
I live the greatest adventure anyone could hope for. -- Tosk the hunted
I've been slightly schizophrenic all of my life. If you sister has a mild case like mine, it is easily controlled by your own thoughts. SELF MEDICATION IS NOT THE ANSWER!!! Taking drugs to feel better will DEFINITELY bring out schizophrenic episodes that you might not recover from. (Like a bad acid trip, but FOREVER!) People who can control their schizophrenia without drugs can have useful "disassociative" thought processes. This type of unchecked thinking can lead to inspiration and the "A-HAH" moments that programmers value so much. (See previous slashdots for those "Eureka" moments. All in all, I would rather be slightly schizophrenic than "normal", but I would never want to be an uncontrollable schizophrenic. I live the greatest adventure anyone could want. -- Tock the Hunted
This research is flawed.
Hafnium is like phoshorus. It spontaneously combusts on contact with air. Adding gamma or xrays isn't going to activate the nucleus of the Hafnium atom somehow.
Elements that offer nuclear energy are either at the low end or high end of the periodic table. Low-end atomic weight element hydrogen and helium (1 and 4) can be made to fuse (fusion) to create middlish weight elements and energy (look at the sun). High-end atomic weight elements like uranium and plutonium (235 and 238) can be made ti split (fission) and create middlish weight atoms.
So there is NO WAY you will get a energy-yielding atomic reaction with hafnium and gamma/xrays.
Hafnium is used in many reactor control rods and are constantly exposed to a barrage of neutrons, gamma rays, fission fragment particles, etc. If this reasearch were true, nearly every nuclear reactor on the planet would be blowing up right now.
Hafnium might be used in weapons, but it is no more dangerous than phosphorus.
I live the greatest adventure anyone could want. - Tosk the Hunted
Oh, yeah. I have Opera set yo "Identify as IS6.0"
Just tried Opera on your link. Popups were blocked and the site worked fine.
Have you ever had a problem with Microsoft products?
Have you ever gotten satisfaction from Microsoft?
How about that Word document that has lots of section breaks, headers and footers, excel and PowerPoint embedded objects, and is about 100 pages long? That darn thing always locks up Word. The solution from Microsoft is to break up the document into smaller documents.
I could have told you that solution without waiting on the help line forever!
Tons of things do not work correctly in Microsoft Office. More things are very counter-intuitive. Excel's number-formatted-as-text is a great one.
Retraining? I don't see it.
Most users can barely use Word as it is. They click here, then click there, type a little, get confused and come to me for help. They never bother to click on 'Help' and figure out their problem themselves.
Open Office menus are similar, common shortcut keys are almost identical and the interface is so similar, many users do not know the difference. I can take any one of our employees and sit them down behind Open Office and have them producing Word documents immediately.
There is no training cost, because they were never trained on Word either!
I live the greatest adventure anyone could want. -Tosk the Hunted
A good cooling setup would have enough flow to keep the liquid from boiling.
With a high enough recirculation flow rate, any boiling the would take place would be at the chip. Small bubbles would form and be swept away by the fluid flow.
This process is called "Nucleate Boiling" and is the best heat transfer method there is. The latent heat of vaporization is absorbed by the liquid in it's phase change to a gas. Then the tiny gas bubbles are swept away by the fluid flow and the gas bubbles collapse, giving their latent heat to the surrounding fluid. This heat is later removed by the cooling radiator at the other end.
As long as the bulk temperature of the fluid stays well below the boiling point and the fluid flow is sufficent to strip the small bubbles that form on the heat source surface, this is really the best setup imaginable!
I live the greatest adventure anyone could want -- Tosk the Hunted.
In the shower, on the toilet, walking up the stairs, driving to work, almost anyplace but at my keyboard.
This is where I solve the really tough problems.
The simple stuff is what I do every day. The tougher problems like the large scale designs and unique solutions for unique problems rarely get solved while I am at work.
I think about the big problems for hours or days and the solution finally comes to me.
The only downside of solving problems in the shower, is that I am doing it on my time and the boss doesn't pay me for that.
That is why I NEVER feel guilty about slahdotting at work.
I live the greatest adventure anyone could wish for. -Tosk the Hunted
I used to teach in the School of Business at Florida State University, my wife taught in Education at FSU.
The School of Education had their lab computers locked down so hard, you had to login as a certain user to use the scanner, then logoff and login as a different user to use Photoshop. This is the way it was for almost every application. The lab assistant had to do the login for you. Many things were broken as in the above posting. This was all to keep the lab assistant from having to fix so many "broken" lab computers.
The School of Business on the other hand, had a generic image of the lab computers and very little security. When a lab computer got fouled up, they simply boot from a floppy and start the copy down of the network image and walk away. Takes them about 3 minutes of their time to redo a computer.
Who actually had less maintenance?
besides, spamming is pretty sophisticated these days, if the mail delivery fails, the target e-mail is often removed from the list of e-mail addresses they are trying to send scam e-mails to ( as far as I know )
I have several Email addresses I turned off years ago. If I recreate them, I will get several spam messages within 15 minutes, then I turn them off again.
Those spammers are either stupid or persistent (or both) checking an Email that has been dead for years.
I often get non-standardized spreadsheets and tables of data with this exact same problem. King-sized can be expressed many different ways.
I always take the bull by the horns and normalize the data myself (UPDATE T_PROD SET SIZE='KING' WHERE (SIZE='K' OR SIZE='74x80' OR SIZE='KNG')).
My simple rule is "never make the data worse". If you substitution fixes 100 bad entries and creates only 1 questionable result, it is a good substitution.
Remember, when faced with non-standardized data, the data ALWAYS has lots of errors in it. When you are through normalizing the data it WILL be better than when you started. The client can then go clean up the rest (they will have to even if you don't normalize).
These programs that have a price indicate that Guillermito must have purchased them to find the vulnerabilities. Purchasing gives him the right to force the companies to fix their product because he is a paying client of a company that makes fraudulent claims. This argument may or may not work for the free/shareware products he tested.
Can't use USB pen drives anymore!
But that's just because management hasn't started using them yet. When our new firewall started blocking sites, every site with the word 'mail' in it and every site not using the standard port 80 was blocked. I just shrugged and went on with life at work.
Recently, just for the heck of it, I tried my university mail account (port 8000) and it worked! Then I tried my personal webmail site and it worked too!
It looks like some higher exec type got locked out of his favorite site and made the networks guys open the firewall a little wider.
Maybe your 'no cell phones' rule is just another flavor of the week and it will go away also.
Lo, and behold, when I re-formatted the drive it worked fine. Better than that, a 250M drive was now a 330M drive.
This drive never ever failed after that, and is still operational inside one of my dinosaur computers.
From personal experience I can verify that some drive do have more Megabytes than the manufacturers allow consumers to use.
TTFN!
This is nothing new. That thin strip in each bill actually has a few atoms of an Iridium isotope in it. Not enough to hurt you, barely enough to detect. But, put a bunch of bills in a duffel bag for instance, and the NSA can track you from space. This conspiracy theory is as old as those little strips in the bills. I don't know if it's true, but I never have had a duffel bag of currency either!